Media Reports On Air India Crash Speculative & Premature, Says US Transport Safety Body

As speculation mounts over the cause of the fatal crash involving an Air India flight earlier this month, the head of the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has urged caution, warning that recent media reports are premature and lack proper investigative context.

In a statement posted on Friday, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy criticised early assumptions and reporting on the incident, which claimed that the aircraft’s captain may have manipulated fuel flow switches before the crash.

“Recent media reports on the Air India 171 crash are premature and speculative,” Homendy wrote. India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau just released its preliminary report. Investigations of this magnitude take time.”